The profile for an on-line dating site of A Shakespearian character
Dismiss my vice, ‘tis virtue that in verse
I tender, offer, proffer – what you will –
In this my profile writ to stir the hearts
Of all who, in their discontent, do seek
A worthy suitor, honest to the core;
For honesty it is that wins me fame
As said the judge who, guided by my word,
Did willingly release me from my chains
And bid me seek a mate to match my worth
Which now I do. Promoted through the ranks
I won the trust of one in higher rank
Whose mistress, I confess, I did desire,
But, having lost her through no fault of mine,
It is to you, whoe’er, I now do look.
‘I am not what I seem’, so once I said,
Yet seemly shall I prove to be abed.
(Iago)
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